LONG SKIRTS AGAIN

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 138, 10 May 1930, Page 2

LONG SKIRTS AGAIN

THE FASHION IN LONDON. THOUSANDS FOLLOW IT. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegr a ph—Copy right.) Received May 9, 1.55 pan. LONDON, May 8. Almost before London realised J long, sweeping skirts had returned. Each day and night secs thousands more victims to the fashion. oo seiiously lias the invasion, which was regarded as almost impossible, been taken that it was the subject of a debate by tho association of women clerks and secretaries to-night. Miss Ellen Wilkinson, M.P., advocated skirts three inches below tlio knee, and Lady Duff Gordon, the noted dress designer, six inches. Tho art critic, G. S. Sandilands, declared unequivocally for long skirts, day and night, but ho received small support. , . . . Miss Wilkinson declared that short skirts largely obliterated class differences. “If they got us into long skirts they will get us into corsets, she added. Miss Wilkinson fervently appealed to business girls rigidly io resist the fashion. Lady Duff Gordon declared with emphasis and amidst applause: “Tho long skirt will never return. The men will stop it. Tho girl who wears it is a fool.’’ Thus saying, she stood upon a table to exhibit her own short skirt. ART CRITIC HOWLED DOWN. Mr Sandilands urged that throughout tho whole experience of art the long skirt triumphed. “I do not advocate short skirts, but trousers,” ho slid. Mr Sandilands was howled down. The audience unanimously declared that it would not wear long skirts. Meanwhile, tho Men’s Dress Reform League, in which Dean Inge is prominent, declaro that the women have let them down. “Last year wo were upholding her as a model of good sense to the misguided men. They are now behaving like tho poor fool, man. They trail disgusting dresses on the floor ini then return to the nursery and Kiss their children, carrying millions of disease genus.” Nevertheless, the, dress reformers are getting ready for a summer campaign.